BBC England reveals that ScotRail had fewer cancellations, often far fewer, than any other other UK rail company in 2024

I’m grateful to my old friend, workmate, dry humourist* and sandwich stealer, from events he hadn’t been invited to attend, Prof Mike Danson of UWS, for alerting me to this.

Never to my knowledge reported by BBC Scotland, STV, the Scotsman or the Herald, this BBC England report from December 2024, reveals ScotRail, in 2024, to have had the lowest rate of cancellations of any UK train company, at 2.9%.

You can check yourself with the link below but even those in the affluent South-East had 3.3%, everywhere else had around 4% and the North West had a shocking 6.5% of all journeys cancelled.

Sort of makes you wonder why BBC Reporting Scotland didn’t share this with us, doesn’t it?

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgnl7j1kglo

* Sometime back in the day, Mike was on a mission to North America at the same time as the University of the West of Scotland staff email was hot with indignant comments on the proposal to charge us for car parking at our place of work. Mike, helpfully, entered the debate with something like, I hope:

In Juarez, 10 dead this morning, but absolutely no problem parking!

5 thoughts on “BBC England reveals that ScotRail had fewer cancellations, often far fewer, than any other other UK rail company in 2024”

        1. Andy, to share on Bluesky using your iPad, you’ll need the Bluesky app on your pad. Like namorrodor said hit the share button and beside the icons for Twitter and Facebook you should have a button with three dots, and “More” below it, click on it and you should be able to find your Bluesky app and post to it. Hope that helps. If you only use Bluesky via a web browser, you can use the Copy option which should be below the list of apps shown, just open Bluesky on the web and paste the link that way.

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  2. The north of England has most rail cancellations. Poor service. Investment should have been made in rail services in the North and Scotland. To cut journey times throughout Britain. Historical lack of investment. Journey times take twice as long, as in the South. £Billions wasted on HS2.

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